Saturday, October 6, 2018

16.04 - Lost files after 'fix' for missing Unity menus

I ran Bleachbit to clean up my 16.04 system (which I've done before with no problems). After reboot the Unity launcher and top menu were missing but I could see my desktop and files. I right clicked and I tried in the Terminal:




  • Starting Unity

  • Reinstalling Unity

  • Purging & reinstalling Unity

  • Installing CCSM & enabling Unity




... all with no luck restoring the launcher or top menu.



I then tried:



dconf reset -f /org/compiz/ setsid unity


... but nothing happened.



I then tried:




rm -rf ~/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig/* 


... and after a reboot a 'factory clean' install of Unity appeared and all my applications, files and folders had disappeared. Help!!!



Is there a way to restore or retrieve my files?

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